Class 3/4 News & Info

Dear Parents/Guardians Welcome back – I hope you all had a fantastic Easter Break! Please find attached, a copy of our Class Newsletter for the forthcoming term. We will be learning lots of exciting things this term including our topic “Tremors”. Now that the Summer Term is upon us, we also have several sporting events…

Dear Parents + Guardians Following our recent Parents Evening, several of you expressed an interest in using interactive games to help your child in English + Spellings. Please find below the links to several websites I have found, that are suitable for children in Key Stage 2, that can be accessed by you and your children…

Year 3 + 4 have had an amazing time taking part in an Eco-Workshop and learning about the benefits of using renewable fuels to generate electricity. Building on our knowledge from our Renewable Energy Day earlier in the year, we learnt how we can do lots of things within our own homes to help reduce…

As part of our Creativity topic ‘Tremors’, Year 3 + 4 have been studying the Scottish artist – Andy Goldsworthy. We have looked at how he makes his sculptures using natural materials such as: Rocks, Ice, Leaves and water, and analysed them closely e.g. have an element of symmetry, 3D perspective etc. We then used…

Class 3 + 4 have been celebrating World Book Day today, following last week’s school closure due to the recent snowy weather. We came dressed as our favourite book characters and did a variety of fantastic book related activities. In Maths, we collected data about our favourite authors, books and book characters, and created…

In Science, as part of our Electricity unit, Year 3 + 4 have been testing materials that conduct electricity. After predicting which materials would conduct electricity around a circuit and would light up the bulb, we built the circuit and drew a circuit diagram to show it using the symbols we had learnt. We…